Author Review: Elmore Leonard
Author Review: Elmore Leonard is most famous for his crime novels and film adaptations of his books.
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Author Review: Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming was born on May 28, 1908 in London, England. He worked in financial services before writing the 1953 novel Casino Royale, which featured…
Author Review: Joan Fleming
Joan Margaret Fleming was a British writer of crime and thriller novels.
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr has won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature this yearand describes two stories set in the WWII…
Author Review: Douglas Clark
Author Review: Douglas Clark. No longer in print, but still worth reading. Check them out in the SMSA Library
The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates
The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates describes the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives.
Bad Seed by Alan Carter
Bad Seed by Alan Carter tells of Cato Kwong forced to recall a personal history that makes his investigation doubly painful when Francis Tan and…
Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke
Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke chronicles the profound friendship between two intense men and the life events that weld them as family.
The Evolutionist: The Strange Tale of Alfred Russel Wallace By Avi Sirlin
The Evolutionist: The Strange Tale of Alfred Russel Wallace By Avi Sirlin details the scientist’s extraordinary life, a dramatic tale of money, class, faith and…
Angels and Insects by A S Byatt
Angels and Insects by A S Byatt consists of two engaging novellas, ‘Morpho Eugenia’ and ‘The Conjugial Angel’, both of which are set in the…
Casanova: Actor, Spy, Lover, Priest by Ian Kelly
Casanova: Actor, Spy, Lover, Priest by Ian Kelly reveals the inner life of this famous – but perhaps not well known – man.
The Queen, her Lover and the most Notorious Spy in History by Roland Perry
The Queen, her Lover and the most Notorious Spy in History by Roland Perry is an account of history of Queen Victoria’s loves and…